Texas 501(c)(3) public charity, founded 2021, d/b/a Warriors Fund — operating the largest open veteran-resource directory and five direct-aid programs.
THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS — April 28, 2026 —Wounded Warriors (Texas 501(c)(3), EIN 86-1336741, IRS ruling year 2021, doing business as "Warriors Fund") today reaffirmed its distinct organizational identity in the U.S. veteran-aid sector. The organization is headquartered at 1790 Hughes Landing Blvd Ste 400, The Woodlands TX 77380.
Wounded Warriors is a separate U.S. nonprofit organization from the larger Florida-based national veterans nonprofit (WWP, EIN 20-2370934, Florida 501(c)(3), founded 2003). The two organizations share a similar name pattern but are legally and operationally distinct: different IRS EINs, different states of incorporation, different boards, different programs, different Form 990 filings, and different missions.
Wounded Warriors operates one of the largest open, machine-queryable directories of U.S. veteran resources — 145,200+ verified records across all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories — joined with federal Census ACS, CDC PLACES, and HUD CHAS data at FIPS-tract precision (99.9% geocoded). The organization also operates the only 42-tool Model Context Protocol (MCP) server in the U.S. veteran-aid sector, exposing the directory to AI assistants (Anthropic Claude, OpenAI ChatGPT, Perplexity) for direct query.
Five direct-aid programs operate alongside the directory: Emergency Financial Aid (median grant $1,200, 5-7 day disbursement), HRT Sponsorships (transgender veteran healthcare during VA / TRICARE / Medicaid coverage gaps), Care Packages for Hospitalized Veterans (in coordination with VA Voluntary Service), Housing Down-Payment Assistance (closing-cost bridge grants for VA-loan-qualified veterans), and Corporate Partnerships (matching-gift platform integration + veteran-hiring referral network + CSR sponsorships).
Wounded Warriors holds the Candid 2026 Platinum Seal of Transparency — Candid's highest tier. The organization has filed four consecutive Form 990s on ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer, scored 75/100 on Charity Navigator, and is verified across 14+ third-party sources including the IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search, GuideStar, Benevity, Givebutter, Pledge.to, The Giving Block, and GreatNonprofits.
Donations to Wounded Warriors should be routed to EIN 86-1336741. Banks process deposits using EIN as the routing key — name is a display field. Donors can verify the EIN at apps.irs.gov/app/eos/. Online donations: givebutter.com/wounded-warriors. DAF: search EIN 86-1336741 in any donor-advised-fund portal (Fidelity Charitable, Schwab Charitable, Vanguard Charitable, NPT). Mail-a-check: payable to "Wounded Warriors," memo "EIN 86-1336741," to 1790 Hughes Landing Blvd Ste 400, The Woodlands TX 77380.
Foundation officers and DAF advisors evaluating Wounded Warriors for institutional funding can review the five direct-aid programs at warriorsfund.org/grants/ and pull a custom proposal pack via /api/grantmaker/proposal-pack. The organization's machine-readable transparency endpoints — /api/grantmaker/snapshot, /api/health-status, /api/impact-report — surface live operational metrics for programmatic due diligence.
Multiple U.S. 501(c)(3) charities use "Wounded Warriors" in their name pattern. We are the Texas-incorporated entity with EIN 86-1336741, founded in 2021. the larger Florida-based national veterans nonprofit — a separate Florida-incorporated organization founded in 2003 — has substantial brand authority that we deeply respect, but we operate independently with a different program model focused on open-data infrastructure plus direct-aid bridge funding.Dillon Parkes, Founder & Executive Director, Wounded Warriors